THE HALLOWED YEAR AHEAD
A glimpse in our ritual planner (and a call for dream study participants)
You may have seen that our yearly ritual planners are now available in the shop. These are highly limited runs because, frankly, they’re a little bit niche, and not always particularly compatible with other calendars. We began making them for ourselves initially, to help coordinate our ritual pursuits over a year’s time, and to more easily visualize the lunar months. It proved effective and interesting enough to turn into a whole publication.
This is our third year of this series of calendars; keep reading to learn more about this year’s edition, some interesting celestial moments to look forward to in 2026, and a potential opportunity to contribute to a research project I am initiating.
The cover art, shown above, is my rendition of an artwork attributed to Hildegard of Bingen, the infamous German abbess, composer, author and mystic. Being dedicated to the Church from childhood, Hildegard was raised in a cell with a fellow Anchoress, isolated away from the world and totally focused on scripture and worship. At particular moments throughout her life, she was struck with visionary fits revealing religious and cosmic scenes, which she would subsequently dictate or sketch onto wax in order to have them made into fully-rendered paintings. One such scene is this, entitled The Universe.
In Vision Three of Part 1 of her work Scivias, Hildegard recounts what she beheld:
…I saw a vast instrument, round and shadowed, in the shape of an egg, small at the top, large in the middle and narrowed at the bottom; outside it, surrounding its circumference, there was bright fire with, as it were, a shadowy zone under it... But from the fire that surrounded the instrument issued a blast with whirlwinds, and from the zone beneath it rushed forth another blast with its own whirlwinds, which diffused themselves hither and thither throughout the instrument. In that zone too there was a dark fire of such great horror that I could not look at it, whose force shook the whole zone, full of thunder, tempest, and exceedingly sharp stones both large and small. And while it made its thunders heard, the bright fire and the winds and the air were in commotion, so that lightning preceded those thunders; for the fire felt within itself the turbulence of those thunders.
Exegesis:
The firmament in the likeness of an egg and what it signifies: For this vast instrument, round and shadowed, in the shape of an egg, small at the top, large in the middle and narrowed at the bottom, faithfully shows Omnipotent God, incomprehensible in His majesty and inestimable in His mysteries and the hope of all the faithful; for humanity at first was rude and rough and simple in its actions, but was enlarged through the Old and New Testaments, and finally at the end of the world is destined to be beset with many tribulations.
Her analysis portrays this cosmic image as full of turbulence and, of course, the lord’s majesty. As I’m sure is apparent to most, and in contrast to a traditionally Christian interpretation, the image is distinctly vaginal, though nowhere in the text is this acknowledged. In fact, the description alone does not call to mind such imagery, and yet somehow in artistic translation, the end result is a starry vulva containing stones, storms and whirlwinds. It is interesting to me that there’s a possibility Hildegard, as well as the artist-monk who depicted her vision, had never actually seen a vulva front-and-center in the way this image suggests. This beautiful image of the divine universe seemed perfect for the cover of a planner meant to embed you further into Nature.
A LOOK INSIDE
Take a look at the lunar month to come, the last full one of 2025—
—and decide if you may want to get yourself a copy, whether digital or physical.
Our planners feature a 29.5-day month to accurately reflect the lunar cycle, meaning one day per month is actually split between two months. This example, which is the month beginning November 20th of this year, shows that the first day of the month is a lunar half-day— we recommend using sunset as an indicator of when the months switch over, for ease’s sake. This may sound complicated, but it’s simple in practice; it just means that the dark moon can be understood as the time that the months switch over.
While there is enough room to add material/practical details to the planner, I have found them to be immensely useful for two things in particular—planning rituals and tracking dreams. I can easily look at the lunar month ahead, the zodiacal season, what’s in retrograde and what’s conjunct, and determine optimal (and just as importantly, non-optimal) moments or timespans for certain workings. I can also look at my dreams and moods which I’ve recorded over a month and possibly glean some insight into them based on the astrological data present.
Before I showcase a selection of interesting Times of Power for the coming year, I want to briefly put out an inquiry for folks who may be interested in participating in a study that will lead to published material in the future.
CALL FOR STUDY PARTICIPANTS
I am compiling data on the topic of dreams and how their imagery connects with phases of the menstrual cycle.
I am looking for adults who menstruate of any age, gender, sexuality, or ethnicity to track the basic details of their dreams, as well as menstrual events—primarily when bleeding begins and ends— in a planner. It does not need to be the Leodrune planner, but it can be, and participants without a planner will be provided a printable digital version of ours.
Participants would then share that information with me, either via pictures of the planner’s spread, or in text form via email.
Participants who contribute 6 months or more of information will be given a free physical copy of the next year’s planner, and a credit in any published material which is informed by the data contributed.
If you are interested, please reach out:
TIMES OF POWER IN 2026
Times of Power are defined in the planner as “moments of interaction between celestial bodies and patterns in the sky, many of which we are uniquely affected by here on Earth.”
I have hand-picked some interesting moments in the year ahead which are present in the planner, and which may be of import to the magically-minded. The dates are based on the UTC time zone, as they are in the planner.
At the end of this month, November 28, we have First Quarter + Orionid meteor shower peaks + end of Saturn retrograde, followed by a Moon/Saturn conjunction on November 29.
On January 3, the Moon is full, as well as conjunct with Jupiter. The Quandrantiid shower peaks, and Earth is at perihelion.
On March 20, the equinox, a Mercury retrograde ends.
On April 22, Moon and Jupiter are conjunct and the Lyrid shower peaks.
On June 15, the Moon is dark, the sidereal Gemini solar season begins, and Mercury is high and bright in the Eastern sky. Then, on June 17, the Moon is conjunct with Jupiter and then Venus.
On October 3, the Moon is in last quarter and a Venus retrograde begins.
On October 24, the Moon is conjunct with Saturn, and a Mercury retrograde begins.
On November 2, the Moon is conjunct with Mars and then Jupiter.
And the entire Ice Moon of 2026, the final lunar month of the year, is full of interesting astrological events… you’ll have to see the planner to find out.
Excited to connect with possible study participants! You’re also welcome to reach out via email: leodrunepress@gmail.com — talk soon.